RSS, VHP's 'single-minded' agenda led to mob frenzy: Liberhan

NEW DELHI: The Liberhan Commission report into the demolition of Babri mosque has held the "single-minded" agenda of RSS and VHP responsible for turning common people into a frenzied mob leading to the events of December 6, 1992.

The four-volume report of over 1,000 pages and tabled in Parliament today has also blamed "a rank of leaders" from BJP, RSS, VHP, Shiv Sena and Bajrang Dal who saw the Ayodhya issue as a road to their success and has termed these people as "executioners wielding the sword handed to them by the ideologues".

These leaders were "neither guided by any ideology nor imbued with any dogma nor restrained by any moral trepidation," the report said.

Observing that the events of and leading up to December 6 were tainted by a "joint conspiratorial enterprise", the report said a handful of "malevolent leaders unabashedly invoked the name of the paragon of tolerance to turn peaceful communities into intolerant hordes.

"The single-minded agenda of the RSS and the VHP; and the extremely patient and focused manner in which the handful of ideologues and theologians manipulated the common masses and turned them into a frenzied mob, capable of acts of the greatest depravity agenda, is unparallelled in recent times."

The Commission said it was the common man who demolished the three-domed structure as he "had no reason to fear or hate the masonry structure or the neighbour with whom he and his family had lived in peace till the moment that his better sense was drowned in the cacophony of religious righteousness and the zealot's rhetoric".